Geographies

Companies listed in alphabetical order by state.
	Quartics Irvine, California Quartics leverages breakthrough semiconductor architectural advantages to provide dominant media processing and media extension solutions for the computer and display markets. The company's semiconductors enable the flawless transmission of video and audio for wireless PC to TV, monitors, and projectors; PC tuner cards, docking stations, HD-networked PVRs, and video conferencing.
	NextMedium Los Angeles, California NextMedium is developing a data standard and toolset that creates new channels of marketing and commerce for entertainment providers to increase revenues and help advertisers reach audiences.
	Amalfi Semiconductor Los Gatos, California Amalfi Semiconductor is a fabless developer of value-added RF devices for the mobile communications industry.
	Jajah Menlo Park, California JAJAH is an innovative and simple way to make cheap calls using the Internet—without headphones, microphones or software downloads. JAJAH connects users phone-to-phone, landline or mobile, local or anywhere else in the world. An Internet connection is only necessary to initiate the call. JAJAH is the latest brainchild of founders Daniel Mattes and Roman Scharf. Inspired by the ideas of F. Jajah. Watamba, the two VoIP communication pioneers decided to realize their vision of a proprietary application that would cross existing communication borders. Simple and cost-effective: JAJAH opens up the benefits of VoIP to all Internet users—regardless of whether they have broadband or dial-up! JAJAH is based in Menlo Park, CA with a European office in Luxembourg.
	Solar Power Partners Mill Valley, California Solar Power Partners, Inc. (SPP™) is a developer, owner, and manager (DOM) of a distributed network of mid-size commercial Solar Energy Facilities (SEF) that is remotely managed from a central location. SPP™ provides an innovative turn-key performance based service (PBS™) that bundles development of SEF, financing through a Power Purchase Agreement, and on-going operations tailored to meet building owner's specific needs.
	Agitar Mountain View, California Agitar is developing software solutions to help companies detect and fix programming errors during software development.
	Arkivio Mountain View, California Arkivio allows IT personnel to manage & optimize storage resources based on data usage. It enables them to cost-effectively place and migrate data on the network as well as transparently grow storage resources.
	Plaxo, Inc. Mountain View, California Plaxo, Inc. is dedicated to keeping people connected by solving the common but frustrating problem of out-of-date contact information.
	Sonics Mountain View, California Sonics develops a communication subsystem that integrates data and controls traffic on a single chip.
	MarketLive, Inc. Petaluma, California MarketLive, Inc. is the leading provider of e-commerce retail technology and services for selling online. The MarketLive® platform is an enterprise-class retail e-commerce solution specifically designed to meet the unique requirements of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and brand manufacturers.
	Steelwedge, Inc. Pleasanton, California Steelwedge, Inc. is an innovative developer of Enterprise Forecast Optimization software solutions that enable companies to dramatically increase margins and revenue predictability by streamlining complex demand forecasting processes.
	Instill Redwood City, California Instill provides hosted Supply Chain Solutions that provide the supply chain visibility and control necessary to reduce food costs. Unlike distributor or custom built applications, Instill delivers solutions with proven returns across a large customer base.
	Nominum Redwood City, California Nominum is a pioneering provider of IP address infrastructure software for enterprises that require reliable and secure DNS, DHCP and IP address management for their mission critical networks.
	StrongMail Redwood Shores, California StrongMail provides high-performance email delivery servers for marketing and transactional email that are optimized high-deliverability.
	Luidia, Inc. San Carlos, California Luidia Inc. develops technologies and products that simplify, improve, and enhance human-computer interactions. Luidia's award-winning eBeam technology is applicable to a wide variety of markets, from large format information display to small mobile devices. The highly embeddable technology enables intuitive 2D and 3D interaction with visual data as part of OEM products or as a stand alone system.
	Amobee San Francisco, California Amobee delivers a unified, telco-grade system for funding mobile content and communications through advertising revenues. The company provides the only media system capable of dynamically inserting targeted, interactive advertisements into all types of mobile entertainment and communication channels, including videos, music, messaging, games, WAP etc., using a single, telco-grade ad-serving infrastructure.
	Applied Identity San Francisco, California Applied Identity is a provider of network identity enforcement solutions that protect enterprises from external and internal security attacks.
	Linden Lab San Francisco, California Linden Lab is a privately held company established to develop an extraordinary new form of shared 3D entertainment. Through its first product, "Second Life," Linden Lab offers a truly collaborative, immersive and open-ended entertainment experience, where together people create and inhabit a virtual world of their own design.
	Palo Alto Networks San Jose, California Palo Alto Networks™ enables visibility and policy control of applications running on enterprise networks. Based on innovative App-ID™ application classification technology, the Palo Alto Networks PA-4000 Series is a next-generation firewall that accurately identifies applications – regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or even SSL encryption – at 10Gbps with no performance degradation.
	Analogix Santa Clara, California Analogix is a provider of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products for the backplane interconnect, Long Reach Ethernet, and HDMI markets.
	Exeros Santa Clara, California Exeros is developing software infrastructure to ease data integration in the enterprise by automating the data mapping process.
	Provigent Santa Clara, California Provigent develops and markets integrated silicon solutions for the broadband wireless industry. Provigent’s cost-effective "system-on-a-chip” (SOC) products enable wireless system vendors to deliver high-performance broadband wireless systems to network operators. Focusing on wireless backhaul and access systems, Provigent SOC solutions offer an unparalleled combination of increased bandwidth, extended range and enhanced flexibility with lower system costs.
	CaliSolar Sunnyvale, California CaliSolar aims to refine cheap dirty silicon in order to help produce photovoltaics (PV) or solar cells, which are silicon semiconductor devices that convert sunlight into direct current electricity.
	oDesk Sunnyvale, California oDesk enables buyers of services to hire, manage, and pay technology service providers from around the world. Buyers choose oDesk for top global talent, comprehensive management tools, and a flexible hourly payment model. Service Providers choose oDesk for challenging jobs and guaranteed payment.
	Vericept Denver, Colorado Vericept enables companies to manage financial, compliance, reputation, and productivity risk by analyzing all inbound and outbound internet traffic for any activity falling outside of a company's internal information controls and acceptable use.
	Copan Systems Longmont, Colorado Copan develops high-density storage solutions for near-line storage and secondary storage applications such as disk backup, data recovery/restoration and tape replacement.
	OpenSpan Alpharetta, Georgia Global 2000 enterprises leverage the OpenSpan Platform to integrate applications, service-enable legacy systems, automate business processes, extend functionality and build new composite applications in order to realize immediate value on their IT investments. OpenSpan and its partners utilize the company’s unique approach to integration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments and increase enterprise desktop productivity. OpenSpan received the 2008 SIIA CODiE Award for Software Newcomer of the Year, the 2008 Editors’ Choice Award from Redmond magazine and the 2007 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. A venture-backed company, OpenSpan is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. More information about OpenSpan is located online at www.openspan.com.
	Wirefree Partners Atlanta, Georgia Wirefree Partners is a PCS wireless spectrum lessor and and service provider in 16 US markets.
	Coskata Warrenville, Illinois Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company, with technology for the production of liquid fuels. Using proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs, the company will produce ethanol for under US$1.00 per gallon anywhere in the world, from almost any input material (feedstock).
	Deeper Tokyo, Japan Deeper is a leading behavioral retargeting advertising service provider in Japan. Deeper provides a differentiator in clients’ internet advertising strategy and more effective methodology to increase CTR (Click-Through-Rate) and a conversion rate at affordable pricing.
	Nurien Seoul , Korea Nurien is a developer of a new form of 3D social media.
	Fortisphere Glenwood, Maryland Fortisphere is a leading provider of Virtual Machine Lifecycle Management software that ensures virtualized environments operate efficiently, effectively and securely. Fortisphere is pioneering the concept of Smart Growth, a way to facilitate rapid expansion of virtual infrastructures through greater visibility, granular control, and best practices.
	Blackwave Acton, Massachusetts Blackwave Inc. (formerly Acinion) provides cost effective systems for storing and delivering Internet Video – providing industry leading performance and scalability designed to meet the growing needs of Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), Aggregators, and Media and Entertainment companies.
	Dotomi Boston, Massachusetts Dotomi™ creates a direct relationship between marketers and consumers by opening a one-to-one messaging channel through banner ad real-estate. Dotomi is 100% privacy compliant to enable consumers to rule over the messages they receive from their favorite marketers.
	Optaros Boston, Massachusetts Optaros is a consulting and systems integration firm that helps enterprises solve IT business problems by providing services and solutions that maximize the benefits of open source software.
	Certeon Burlington, Massachusetts Certeon has developed a network appliance that provides application-aware bandwidth optimization over WANs.
	Expressor Software Corporation Burlington, Massachusetts Founded in 2003, expressor software develops next-generation data integration software for the global 2000.
	Zipcar Cambridge, Massachusetts An internet based service that lets members reserve and access a variety of cars without the cost of ownership. Today, Zipcar has more than 80,000 consumers and 2,500 cars in London and 13 North American states and provinces including Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Toronto and Washington D.C. areas, with plans to expand.
	GlassHouse Framingham, Massachusetts A pioneer in the storage services sector, GlassHouse Technologies distinguishes itself by providing solutions from strategy to operations. GlassHouse offers guaranteed services focused on technology and organizational effectiveness.
	Akorri Littleton, Massachusetts Akorri products help IT Departments more optimally manage their information, control infrastructure costs, and improve application performance thereby increasing the value of their information assets. As data centers scale to utility/grid storage architecture, Akorri enables them to optimally manage their information.
	Covergence Maynard, Massachusetts Covergence is the leader in scaling, securing and controlling VoIP and other real-time services based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). The Covergence Eclipse session manager is purpose-built to address the challenges of the access edge, giving users the secure, instant, and reliable access to SIP services they expect while giving organizations the complete control and visibility they require.
	Incipient, Inc. Waltham, Massachusetts Incipient, Inc., a Waltham, MA based high-technology company, develops and markets data storage software that runs on intelligent storage network devices.
	OpenPages Waltham, Massachusetts Founded in 1996, OpenPages develops enterprise governance, risk and compliance management solutions that streamline knowledge-intensive processes to improve corporate accountability, reduce disclosure process cost, enhance internal controls management productivity, and increase investor confidence. The company's portfolio of solutions includes Sarbanes-Oxley Express (SOX Express), the market-leading enterprise application for automating the corporate financial reporting and disclosure compliance requirements of Sections 404 and 302 of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
	Q1 Labs Waltham, Massachusetts Q1 Labs provides organizations with the surveillance, analysis and control technology needed to eliminate external threats and internal policy enforcement risks. Q1 Labs' innovative product, QRadar , features intelligent, behavior-based, real-time analysis that recognizes and isolates the source of threats and anomalous behavior caused by security breaches or unacceptable internal activity.
	Quattro Wireless Waltham, Massachusetts Quattro Wireless brings publishers, advertisers and wireless operators together to embrace the mobile Web. Quattro combines its diverse global network of publishers with exclusive advertising inventory to form the mobile industry's premiere marketplace.
	Nantero Woburn, Massachusetts Nantero is a nanotechnology company using carbon nanotubes for the development of next-generation semiconductor devices. Nantero’s main focus is the development of NRAM™ –a high-density nonvolatile random access storage device. NRAM™ will replace all existing forms of storage, such as DRAM, SRAM and flash memory, with a high-density nonvolatile RAM – ‘universal memory.’
	Advent Solar Albuquerque, New Mexico Advent Solar, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of innovative solar cells and modules. Its unique, exclusive EWT cell technology was originally developed at Sandia National Laboratories and is in a class of solar cells referred to as back-contact cells. This technology is the basis for Advent’s high performance products with the potential for dramatically lower cost than conventional solar photovoltaic technology.
	Vettro New York, New York Vettro is the global leader in mobile on-demand applications, trusted by over 200 of the world’s most successful field sales and service organizations including BostonCoach, Carillion, Carey Limousines, Cigna, Clemson University, Cytyc, General Electric, Hitachi Data Systems, Honeywell, Loomis Fargo, McKesson, Merrill Lynch, and SuperShuttle. Vettro 360 represents an integrated suite of enterprise on-demand mobile applications designed to help companies maximize business contributions driven by the field workforce.
	Hatteras Networks Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Hatteras Networks offers carrier solutions to extend the Ethernet Service Edge for Mid-Band Ethernet services to businesses, mobile wireless cell sites and remote DSLAMs that are not served with fiber.
	Think3 Cincinatti, Ohio Think3 develops powerful, affordable, and easy-to-learn 3D design software. (formerly Cad. Lab)
	Strata8 Bellevue, Washington Strata8 Networks provides integrated cell phone and office phone services along with industry specific business applications. Services provide business customers web-based management control, simplified billing, quality customer service, cost savings and ease of use. Basic wireless applications (i.e. email, contacts, calendar, etc.) and advanced wireless applications (applications specific to vertical markets) are easily integrated in our open platform environment.